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After playing Signor Adolfo Pirelli in the recent movie release of "Sweeney Todd", it looks as Sacha Baron Cohen (of Borat fame) might be becoming a choice pick for directors, or maybe just the soup du jour.

Actor and comedian-chameleon Sasha Baron Cohen admitted in an interview yesterday that the characters that made him famous, Ali G and Borat, will be retired from his repetoire. Borat, the improbably cuddly anti-Semitic Kazakhstani innocent abroad, whose antics and exploits were made famous in a highly successful 2006 film, transformed Baron Cohen from a popular British comedian to a world-wide phenomenon. But he broke the news in a Daily Telegraph interview that Borat, he not-a coming back:

"When I was being Ali G and Borat I was in character sometimes 14 hours a day and I came to love them, so admitting I am never going to play them again is quite a sad thing," he said. "It is like saying goodbye to a loved one. It is hard, and the problem with success, although it's fantastic, is that every new person who sees the Borat movie is one less person I 'get' with Borat again, so it's a kind of self-defeating form, really."

Good call on that one, we say. Borat is a great character but Baron Cohen is smart to kill him while he's still funny. Baron Cohen has a role in Tim Burton's new "Sweeney Todd," as well as a "Bruno" movie in the works, so we're sure this funny guy will be creating new characters and building a solid career for years to come. Bravo, and Borat, you've been pain in our assholes but you still are SUCCESS!!!

(l-r): Billy Bob Thornton, Marty Stuart, Porter Wagoner, and Dwight Yoakam perform a surprise set before Neko Case @ The Henry Fonda Theatre. Photo courtesy Ice Cream Man. For the first time in recent history, Hollywood was rattled by bonafide foot-stomping. Many in the audience at the Music Box last night had no idea what was taking place when Neko Case announced Porter Wagoner's intention to take over Hollywood. But a historic buzz took...

Of the three characters that Sasha Baron Cohen does, Bruno is my least-favorite. Does that make me a Tim Hardaway? I hope not. While we were watching the NBA dunk contest we started fighting about Borat vs Bruno vs Ali G and the Bruno supporters pointed to this video that just happened to be about our town....

I have a nice friend who hooked me up to see a special screening of the new Borat movie. Not only was we able to get to go to the screening, but we were on "the list" and got to get out of the long line, bypass all the riff-raff and make our way into the theater to take the primo seats behind the super primo seats that were reserved for "PRESS". And let...

In the July 18 episode, Nat is reading the paper, and says (paraphrasing), "Man that Bush just lies and lies and nobody does anything about it."

Meanwhile, Six Feet Under continued its fantastic new season with the usual - aggrieved Nate, crazy Ruth, restless Claire. But the show got all Sopranos on us when David gets carjacked and taken hostage by a maniacal thug who forces him to go on a crack run to MacArthur Park. He spares David's life as the episode ends, so we hope that the show hasn't its action bent - we'd love to see the crackhead receive some payback. Can't wait for next Sunday...